Chapter 8 - SOC+ Flashcards
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3 human capabilities that make culture possible
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- abstraction is the capacity to create symbols or general ideas
- cooperation, complex social life establishing norms
- production make tools & use them as well as techniques
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Sex
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depends on one’s genetic
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Gender
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comprises the feelings, attitudes & behaviours typically associated with being male or female
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Gender Roles
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the “expectations” of how men & women should act
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Essentialism
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a perspective that views gender as part of the nature or “essence” of one’s biological social makeup
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essentialist theory
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argues that humans constantly try to ensure their genes are passed on to future generations. Women tend to have a bigger investment
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Gender Socialization
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how society normalizes certain things to represent “what it means to be a certain gender”
8
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4 factors that lead to the gender gap in pay
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- gender discrimination (regarding men & women differently for the same job)
- women tend to be concentrated in low-wage occupations & industries (programs women select in high school & afterwards limit their choice of occupation)
- Heavy domestic responsibilities reduce women’s earnings (raising a child)
- Paid work done by women is commonly fewer valuables than men
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2 types of Sexual harassment
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- Quid pro quo sexual harassment (Latin meaning: one thing for another): sexual threats or bribery is made a condition of employment decisions
- Hostile environment: involves sexual jokes, touching, comments that interfere with work or create a hostile work environment
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Women’s movement in Canada - 4 main streams
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- Liberal feminism: the belief that non-sexist methods of socialization & education, more sharing in domestic task between men & women.
- Socialist feminism: regards to women’s relationship to the economy as the main source
- Radical feminist: male dominance & norms justifies that domination
- “the 3rd wave” emerged in mid-1980s characterized by anti-racist & postmodernist feminist
